Siege of Leningrad Road of life (12 September, 1941 – March, 1943)

1. Siege of Leningrad Road of life ( 12 September, 1941 – March,1943)

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2. The Road of Life

• The "road of life" was the only transport route
through lake Ladoga during the great Patriotic war.
During periods of navigation on the water, in winter
on the ice. It connected the besieged Leningrad
with the country from September 12, 1941 to March
1943.
• At first, roads and Railways were cut off. And on
September 8, 1941, after the capture of
Shlisselburg, the history of the besieged Leningrad
began – one of the most tragic in the great Patriotic
war. The only communication with the outside world
for the Leningraders remained only the road that
began on the shore of lake Ladoga.

3. The road of life through lake Ladoga

• When the blockade ring closed, the only way to
communicate with the besieged Leningrad
remained-through lake Ladoga, the coast of which
the Soviet army continued to control during the
great Patriotic war. This lake was very difficult for
navigation.

4. How the Road of life was paved

How the Road of life was
• At the first, it was clear that the shipping route
paved
was a temporary measure. It would be cold
soon.
Therefore,
employees
of
the
Hydrological
Institute
and
the
road
Department of the Leningrad front began to
design a road that was to be laid directly on
the ice of the frozen lake Ladoga.
• The length across Ladoga was approximately
30 kilometers. In this relatively small area,
tens of thousands of people worked together
in difficult conditions. These were truck
drivers and drivers of horse-drawn carts,
mechanics who repaired cars, traffic
controllers whose task was to guide drivers
along the safest routes. In addition, there
were those who directly paved the road.

5. The route to Leningrad

• The situation in the city was well known to the drivers of
cars that delivered dozens of tons of various goods to the
banks of the Ladoga river in the Leningrad blockade and
picked up evacuees from there. They risked their lives
every minute, going out on the ice of lake Ladoga. And
these are not just big words. Only for one day on
November 29, 1941, 52 cars went under the water. And
this is on a stretch of 30 kilometers long! So no one closed
the car doors. So there was a chance to get out of the
sinking car.

6. The siege winter

• Of all the Leningraders had to endure three winters of the
siege. Although the ice road worked best at this time, and it
could deliver a considerable number of tons of cargo, it was
the winter of the blockade that was the most difficult time for
Leningrad residents. After all, cold was added to the acute
problem of malnutrition.
• During the first winter – from December 1941 to February 1942
– a quarter of a million people died in Leningrad.
• There was another way, which was called the little road of life.
It passed over the surface of the Gulf of Finland. This way the
defenders got to the defended "patch". It also sent back
numerous soldiers wounded in battle.

7. The Map of the road of life

8. Monuments